Robtest is just a
wrapper around tldtest. So if you’re using robtest, then you’re using
tldtest. I would make sure you can move tapes to/from those extended
slots. If you can, then I’d say it’s definitely not a hardware issue.
Robtest/tldtest is a low-level piece of software that talks directly to
the library and has nothing to do with Symantec licensing,
etc.
From:
Wilkinson, Tim [mailto:Tim.Wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:33
PM
To: Curtis Preston; Ed Wilts
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] tape
limit?
Curtis,
What's the syntax with
tldtest and what does it do? Robtest appears to show all the slots and contents
(or no contents where that is the case) - would that suggest it's not a HW
issue?
When we installed the
expansion unit, I put 9 more tapes in to test (we won't need more than
that for a while) and ran an inventory in NBU. It found new tapes but put
some in stand-alone, with 55 tapes in the default volume group. At the
time, I thought it could be a barcode read error or something so I moved the
stand-alone tapes around and did another inventory. It then added the
stand-alone tapes back into the volume group but removed some other tapes and
put them in standa-lone. The number in the volume group never hits more than 55.
The tapes that get moved into stand-alone seem to change every time I move tapes
around and get a new inventory.
Cheers,
Tim
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 4:35
PM
To: Wilkinson, Tim; Ed
Wilts
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape
limit?
I would use
robtest/tldtest and manually talk to the library. That doesn’t have any
licenses associated with it. If tldtest reports 55 slots, that’s your
proof.
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Wilkinson, Tim
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:08
PM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape
limit?
Ed/Steve - If it turns
out it's very unlikely to be Netbackup then I'll begin to query the HW. The tech
seems to think all the slots were available and the library software could see
all the tapes and I had no reason to question him.
From: Ed Wilts
[mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2008 4:00
PM
To: Wilkinson,
Tim
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape
limit?
Do you have the right "license" on the
SL500? By default, they appear to come with a 100-slot license - at least
ours did. We had to purchase a license, and it was *expensive* to make use
of the full 144 slots.
If/when you do purchase this license, you'll be
shocked at the installation instructions compared to the price you
paid...
I'm not aware of any slot-based licensing in NetBackup. I
think it's TSM that has it which is why the SL500 is cheaper when it's
restricted to 100 slots.
.../Ed
On Jan 24, 2008 10:47 PM, Wilkinson, Tim <Tim.Wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au>
wrote:
Netbackup 6, MP4,
Windows.
Is there any sort of tape limit on a
standard NBU license?
We have this strange issue where
we've just had an expansion unit added to our SL500s tape
library giving us >144 slots available.
I'm still trouble-shooting this issue but I can make the standard volume group
to see more than 55 tapes; any tapes in the library over the 55 mark are moved
into the stand-alone volume group. It doesn't seem to matter which slots I move
the tapes to.
I'll run the robot inventory and it
will give me 55 tapes in the normal volume group, and the reset it will stick in
the stand-alone group, so I'll then put the stand-alone tapes into the CAP,
re-run the inventory (this time to empty CAP as well) and it will add the tapes
from the CAP but then take out other tapes and put them in the stand-alone
group.
It never makes it above 55
tapes.
Cheers,
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